Sentence examples for narrow circumstance from inspiring English sources

Justice O'Connor, for herself and three other justices, upheld the government's power to detain Mr. Hamdi under what she called the "narrow" circumstance of his capture in Afghanistan.

The president is proposing that the Congress authorize him to take action in this very narrow circumstance.

But she also wrote the decision was limited to Mr. Hamdi's "narrow circumstances".

Yet only the narrow circumstances of her capture – did she open fire on the US soldier?

Under these narrow circumstances, a doctor's judgment that CPR would be useless was sufficient.

The Wild Bird Conservation Act bans importing wild birds except under narrow circumstances.

The law in New York tolerates the use of deadly physical force in self-defense in narrow circumstances.

The legislature passed a bill that would permit referendums on constitutional and sovereignty issues, but only under narrow circumstances.

Because what if the whole tutoring idea is, except in certain narrow circumstances, misleading and self-justifying?

He told me that he supports the use of torture "in narrow circumstances" and believes that it can be justified under the Constitution.

But a close, literal reading of the Constitution's text suggests that the practice may be unconstitutional except in narrow circumstances.